Yeah, it's especially hard for all the Daenerys arcs because she's usually just sitting around in Roman esque environment interacting with 70 different groups.

Also, I just realized that the lady who's playing Melisandre was also the main villain in a movie called Black Death.

In that movie she was an atheist who used paganism to control a village. I didn't think she was the best actress in the world, but she was pretty good. Melisandre is a pretty similar role, she should do fine.

Also Tom on the fat thing I remember reading the first scene with King Robert and it's like 'he must have weighed [some amount of] stone' so I looked up how much that is in real weight and I was like WHOA MARK ADDY WAS NOT 500 POUNDS